Emil Sit

@emilsit

I do the best work I can and try to enable others to do the same. , , for , , , .

Cambridge, MA
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    23 Jul 2016

    Do you love things like CRDTs or consensus algorithms? We have problems for you to solve . Let's chat!

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  2. Retweeted
    Jan 14

    I need your help. I want to talk to Software Developers who have stories about them actively making moral decisions that had positive ethical outcomes. DMs are open for recommendations and contact. Appreciate a RT to help me with reach.

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    Jan 12

    Being a senior member of the technical staff is about being a leader and being a leader means thinking big, setting direction and growing everyone around you.

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    Jan 12

    Stanford uploads 111 lectures by Donald Knuth. There go your next five years of spare time…

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    Jan 9

    Another good convo with X. Leadership can enable and support high performance or stand in the way - in too many places 'leaders' are actively harmful blockers.

    X : We have a problem with our people. Me : What? X : Most lack digital skills necessary and those we hire keep on leaving. We need to make our culture more dynamic, more digital, more agile. Me : That's easy to fix. X : How? Me : Fire your direct reports and then fire yourself.
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    Jan 8

    "Shuttered museums, federal workers who can’t pay their bills, national parks with stinking toilets ... This is what the suicide of a great democracy looks like." George Packer visits the Lincoln Memorial during the shutdown:

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  7. Jan 8

    Fascinating thread on mutation and evolution. It’s very long but worth the read.

    There is an amazing evolutionary biology paper out this week in Science: DNA fragility in the parallel evolution of pelvic reduction in stickleback fish Let’s look at what they did.
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    Jan 4

    Really great post by on engineering management. Must-read for new engineering managers, as well as for engineers considering a move into management.

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  9. Retweeted
    31 Dec 2018

    A new year. It’s up to us to determine if it will be a happy one. What if we had the opportunity to make the world a better place? For someone. For everyone. What would we do with the opportunity? I hope we would see it, understand it as a great privilege, and act.

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    31 Dec 2018

    The South Boston Yoga New Years celebration will most likely sell out within the next few hours. If your plan was to join us please save your spot ASAP! I adore you all and will see you tonight! ♥️♥️♥️

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    26 Dec 2018

    .@Ocasio2018’s has redefined what’s politically possible. Two years ago, Obama wouldn’t even try for a carbon tax. Now, the #2 Senate Republican is advocating for it as an alternative to the GND. Bold progressivism shifts the goalposts. Democrats, take notes.

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    28 Dec 2018

    PKS designed to do just this

    People I work with are tired of hearing this, but the mantra is: smaller clusters, more of them. Turns out you can manage Kubernetes pretty effectively if you keep it at relatively small scale. Manage the meta-footprint separately.
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    26 Dec 2018

    Some years ago I realized: When I ask my kids or wife, "Why did you do that?" it is shaming. There is no good answer; I was trying to make them feel bad. - "Why" is an overrated word.

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    26 Dec 2018

    Beats by Dre headphones for $20 a week. After a 61-week payment plan, cost balloons to $1,219 $1,379 for an Xbox that retails at $299. $2,834 for a TV that sells for $717. These are the predatory prices peddled to people of color by Rent-a-Center.

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    19 Dec 2018

    The team doubled. Here's their secret to scaling effective new-hire onboarding for engineers:

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    16 Dec 2018

    We're getting ready to release part 2 of our two-part series on The Great Soda Wars on Tuesday. Make sure to listen to part 1 (complete with !) before then (and there's a transcript, too!)

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  17. 16 Dec 2018

    Are there any iOS (iPad) apps for that let you easily comment *on code* in pull requests?

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  18. Retweeted
    8 Dec 2018

    Sometimes you watch Silicon Valley and think, “ok isn’t this all a little over the top” and then you go back to San Francisco and talk to people and

    We also meditated in a cave in Mandalay one evening. In the first 10 minutes I got bit 117 times by mosquitoes 🦟 They left me alone when the light blew a fuse, which you can see in my heart rate lowering.
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    3 Dec 2018

    Been mulling over words from Olympian at a event a few weeks ago. To paraphrase: 'I thought I was doing all I could to move the boat faster, but my coach said it's not enough, he asked me what I was doing to get the best out of the others in the boat'.

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    23 Nov 2018

    My statement on the National Climate Assessment released today:

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    23 Nov 2018

    “Software needs owners. Not operators, not developers. Owners have impact on the full lifecycle of their software: build, fix, listen, patch, commit, deploy, revert, rollback, instrument, understand, anticipate, verify, validate.” - Charity Majors

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